girls:
16 births since 1996
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1967
#3410 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1967
#6527 (16th percentile)
The name Tait is the #6,527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,213 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 15.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,410 (25.6% percentile) for all time with 1,197 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1996.
Tait first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1996 for girls).
The name Tait has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tait reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #622) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tait ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 12.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tait reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tait".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tait is pronounced as tayt, which has 1 syllables.
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